Peter Rukin is a partner with Rukin Hyland Doria & Tindall LLP in San Francisco, where he concentrates on complex litigation. Peter has successfully litigated class action and individual employment cases in California and across the United States, and served as counsel of record in various state and federal reported decisions, including as counsel for amici Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, et al. in Kolstad v American Dental Association, 527 U.S. 526 (1999). Peter graduated from New York University School of Law in 1991 and served as law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Harry D. Leinenweber in Chicago. Following his clerkship, he practiced at employee-side firms in Chicago (Stowell & Friedman) and New York (Vladeck Waldman Elias & Engelhard) and served as Of Counsel in the Employment Law Department at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in San Francisco before starting his own firm in March 2003. Peter is a co-author of two chapters in the CEB treatise California Wage and Hour Law and Litigation, chapter author in the upcoming BNA treatise Class Actions in Employment Law, and frequently speaks on employment law issues. He is also a past member of the California State Bar Labor & Employment Section Executive Committee and a current member of the Bar Association of San Francisco Labor & Employment Section Executive Committee.